Re: [WBEL-users] Fast system clock

Hi John

Sadly not.  It's an old PIII ...

Francies


> Message Received: Mar 19 2007, 05:56 PM
> From: [email protected]
> To: "Francies Moore" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Fast system clock
> 
> Does this happen to be a dual-core CPU?
> 
> John
> 
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Francies Moore wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > An update on the above ( have been busy elsewhere so have only just come back 
> > to it).
> >
> > clock=pit or clock=tsc worked about equally to make the system usable, 
> > although even with ntp running there was a 'creep' of about 10 minutes over 
> > 12 hours. pmtmr did not make much difference to the high speed.
> >
> > As typing in a terminal produced repeating keys making working with it 
> > impossible, I had to reboot to change grub.conf, using an earlier kernel.
> >
> > Now the system is spraying SMART errors so looks like a replacement HD is 
> > necessary.... it's a Maxtor.... arghhh .
> >
> > Probably will put WBEL3 respin2 or CentOS 3.1 on any new HD as I have them 
> > both to hand. And maybe a new m/b battery. If I can get it working 
> > satisfactorily it will live only on an internal network so a 3 version should 
> > do.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Francies
> >>